Why is everything so scalable?

Post by vidarh » Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 5:36 PM UTC

DanielHB wrote: post #380

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Managing database backups is fairly straightforward. Postgres + a base backup + long term wal archiving in a blob store is very easy to set up and monitor. It could be easier , and if you don't want to manage that using RDS is certainly a valid choice, but it's a tradeoff - I often have customers that help addressing performance issues with RDS they simply wouldn't have if they sized a bare metal setup with enough RA…

I dunno, it does sound like significant work and way outside my (and most devs) area of expertise. I can definitely supervise a managed RDBMS (like RDS) by myself without help on the side even though I am no dba. A mismanaged VPS is downtime and churn, a mismanaged DB will insta-kill your business if you have unrecoverable data loss. I would definitely use a managed solution until I can get a dedicated person to baby…

Post by takedownforwhat » Mon, Oct 20, 2025, 1:56 AM UTC

sgarland wrote: post #300

JohnMakin wrote: post #114

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You’re thinking purely in terms of app performance. have you ever seen a terrible db schema? Having to suddenly iterate fast with a brittle codebase that doesnt really allow that ive seen bring teams to their knees for a year+. I’ve seen monoliths because of their sheer size and how much crap and debt is packed into them, build and deploy processes taking several hours if not an entire day for some fix that could be…

> have you ever seen a terrible db schema? I am a DBRE, so yes, unfortunately most days I see terrible schemata. > Having to suddenly iterate fast with a brittle codebase that doesnt really allow that ive seen bring teams to their knees for a year+. IME, the “let’s move fast” mindset causes further problems, because it’s rare that a dev has any inkling about proper data modeling, let alone RDBMS internals. What I usu…